Pelosi Ditches Single-Payer Provision 10/30

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CLARK NEWHALL, http://1payer.net
Executive director of Health Justice, Newhall is a doctor and a
lawyer. He said today: "Thursday the House Democrats released their
version of healthcare reform. While we have been pushing for a debate on
the House floor for single payer, and been calling for the
representatives to keep the Kucinich [Amendment]. ... It seems House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi lied. ... [The Kucinich Amendment] allowing states
to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of
the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July
by a vote of 27 to 19."
Health Justice has produced a series of ads on healthcare,
available at:
http://www.1payer.net/Medicare-For-All/everybody-in-nobody-out.html .
DEBORAH BURGER, CHARLES IDELSON, http://www.calnurses.org
Burger is a co-president of the California Nurses
Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. Idelson is a
spokesperson for the group. Idelson said: "In July, the House Labor and
Education Committee approved an amendment introduced by Rep. Dennis
Kucinich that would exempt states that enact Medicare for all /
single-payer bills from the onerous limitations contained in the federal
ERISA law governing employer sponsored health plans.
"Since then a rogues' gallery of Fortune 500 corporate interests
and insurance lobbyists have put a lot of pressure on the House
leadership to strip the Kucinich Amendment from the final bill going to
the House floor."
Single payer legislation, which would replace private health
insurance with one plan that covers everyone, like an expanded and
enhanced Medicare, has in recent years twice passed the California
legislature but been vetoed by the governor.
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